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The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported strin
Rudolph Wurlitzer label
Band organ
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Theatre organ
Theatre organ
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A theatre organ, also known as a theater organ or cinema organ in the United Kingdom, is a type of pipe organ developed to accompany silent films from the 1900s to the 1920s.
Wurlitzer
…manufacturing pianos and eventually relocated to North Tonawanda, New York. It quickly expanded to make band organs, orchestrions, player pianos and pipe or theatre organs popular in theatres during the days of silent movies. Wurlitzer also operated a chain of retail stores where the company's products were sold. As…
Console of the 3/13 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ at Ann Arbor's Michigan Theatre
Theater Organ Console
Wurlitzer at the Musical Museum in London, showing the Art Deco framing lighting panels showcasing the organ console
The offices of the Wurlitzer factory in New York, previously known as the North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory.